It’s no spoiler to say that one of the kids ends up dead like James’s 1898 novella, the story is a “found” manuscript, recounted in flashbacks. The Victorian ruin has been fully renovated as a “smart” house, its lovingly restored period details bisected by a modern glass extension, “like a patient who looked well enough above their clothes but lift their shirt and you would find their wounds had been left unstitched, bleeding out.” If the heroine feels like she’s being watched or hearing voices, it’s because she definitely is every room is equipped with surveillance cameras and voice-activated technology linked to “Happy,” an app that’s anything but.ĭisgruntled daycare worker Rowan Caine’s new position-as the overcompensated live-in nanny to the four daughters of globe-trotting husband-and-wife architects-seems too good to be true, and it is. The governess is now a nanny, and technology haunts remote Heatherbrae House. She takes James’s young governess, troubled children, absentee parents, and sinister servants and transplants them to the twenty-first century, where, it turns out, they’re right at home. In this bold contemporary reboot of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, Ware doesn’t so much turn the screw as remix it. If you’re spending your long weekend in an isolated country house or the misty Scottish highlands, give The Turn of the Key a hard pass. Westaway-that you’ll definitely want to read on the beach, in broad daylight, preferably with a cold dose of liquid courage in hand. Just in time for Labor Day comes The Turn of the Key, a creeptastic new book from Ruth Ware-author of The Woman in Cabin 10 and The Death of Mrs.
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